Potters Bar Forum

Recently there been a bit of talk about Potters Bar railway station and the changes that have been going on. Well a mate of mine works for Tfl (Transport for London) says that Kings Cross now has overcrowing problems mostly from people going on the Northren Line. The loop would start at Edgware going along the line that was planned for the Northern Heights plan so the stations would be Bushey Heath, Elstree and Brockleyhill it should be noted both the stations and the tunnel were built in the 1930s but have never been used in today's money they cost aound 1/2 Billion £s (after WW2 the Green belt rules stopped the project being finished but with the growing numbers of people living there and growing car use it could now be build) too build the inner part of the Loop would carry on too Borehamwood, South Mimms before going into a tunnel at Potters Bar station all the way too Higth Barnet. The outter part of the Loop would go too Watford (where it would meet the met Line), before going too Radeltt, London colney before joining at Potters Bar (Potters Bar station could be moved as well but I get too that latter).

The second part of the plan would see high speed trains stopping at Potters Bar. The result would see one of two things happening too the railway station:

It could be moved too a new site at the edge town this could see a New Potters Bar station with the old one being downgraded or closed.

Or

Potters Bar station could cover station close with a new shopping mall . Plans are in very early station I only know as my mate was in the pub and he let it slip!

The result would see Potters bar becoming the Transport hub for both South Hertshire and North London it would also see reduced travel times too Watford, Radeltt and many towns.

What do you think the project due too be started in 2010 and as all the tunnels apart from one are build it should be finished before 2012?


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I think your mate was pulling your leg.

I recall the northern heights and toured it with someone who does yearly tours and maintains the thought that the line would be revisited from Finsbury Park through the woodland walk and onwards. I think part of it has been built on already though it is mostly intact.

There were also plans some years back to build a parkway station in the cutting between here and Hadley Wood, on green belt land, but luckily this didn't hapen!

I agree, I think your mate's pulling your leg!

Interesting site about the tube and the Northern Heights extension
http://www.geocities.com/lostlines/index2.html

Click here for map
(This is listed under the "Just for fun" section of the site!)

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Has to be "just for fun" - can you imagine South Mimms being in zone 6... if only!

The walk I did is marked on maps as the "Parkland Walk". It starts just north of Finsbury Park station, through a wood, several viaducts and ends up at Ally Pally having gone through Highgate high level station (which is now abandoned and unused - the main station is underground).

This map has it marked up, quite a nice walk and clearly ex-railway

Wikipedia has a good page with lots of links

Also some really nice pictures here.

Yep definitely just for fun!

Monken Hadley and Bignells Corner are the wrong way round on the map. Anyway why on earth would there be a station at both Bignells and South Mimms?

Although I think this has now been sufficiently debunked, but there is more discussion on the impracticalities of it here: http://districtdave.proboards39.com/inde...1197541970 .

Like the writers on that forum agree, must have been a pretty slow news week for the W H Times to have that on the front page. Also, I wonder why a link or attribution was not given to this forum? The article only talks of 'a local forum'. (Apart from anything else, that only further reduces the credibility of the W H Times article in my opinion.)